IT Security Engineer
- Recruiter
- Salmon Limited
- Location
- Watford
- Salary
- Excellent Salary + Benefits
- Posted
- 27 May 2015
- Closes
- 29 May 2015
- Sectors
- Facilities Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
IT Security Engineer
IT Security Engineer required that is passionate about their work to join our fast-moving IT Department. The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of Information Security with supporting experience. The candidate must be have an ability to quickly analyse and remediate information security threats, implement efficient procedures and have a solid understanding of the technology used such as CheckPoint, WebSense, Sophos Anti-Virus, Nagios, ZScaler, Nessus and similar.
Role
Capable of day to day responsibility for IT Security and to aid the strategic direction for the IT Security function as we expand. To work closely with the Information Security and Compliance Manager to manage day to day IT Security. Assist in defining, documenting and maintaining security baselines, standards, policy and procedures in conjunction with relevant IT teams. This is a hands on role where a solid technical background is required to follow up with security patching of Servers, Firewalls, appliances and to measure the IT security posture.
Main responsibilities include:
- Implement and manage security related policies and alerts/incidents
- Improve security logging, identification and management
- Improve automation and monitoring of systems
- Respond effectively to IT Security incidents and patching of systems
- Ensure compliance to DSS PCI and IT Regulations
- Infrastructure security architecture/designs, plans, controls, processes, standards, policies and procedures are aligned with operational standards
- Ability to identify malicious files on Linux and Windows Server platforms
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Essential requirements:
- 3+ years direct experience administrating and operating IT Security solutions
- Understanding and experience of Vulnerability Assessment Tools
- Solid understanding of information security control and governance frameworks
- Strong exposure to ITIL processes and documentation
- Technical hands-on experience with security tuning, package installation, patch management updates, network and server security management issues
- Experience with monitoring IDS/IPS, AV, DLP, etc in a large enterprise environment
- Experience with VMware infrastructure components (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSA/vCNS, etc)
Desirable skills:
- Administration of Firewalls (CheckPoint), Anti-Virus Services (Sophos), Email filters, Web filters
- Ability to perform Investigations and Forensics
- Good awareness of Information Security, risk methodologies and risk management
- Knowledge of software quality assurance best practices
Salmon is a global commerce service provider that defines and delivers market-changing commerce strategies and solutions for the world's leading brands.
We have a reputation for using our technical know-how to make things happen. But we are creative too, which means we don't always give clients exactly what they ask for. Instead, we call on our commerce expertise to put forward new and challenging ideas. We then help brands decide what to do, before we go on to deliver.
With Salmon, clients grow their online revenue and profit. We are trusted to run commerce solutions that generate more than GBP3 billion in sales each year.
Established in 1989, we have operations in London, New York, Sydney and Beijing. Our clients include Audi, Akzo Nobel, Argos, Audi UK, Halfords, Premier Farnell, Sainsbury's and Selfridges.